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Wired News: Decoding Bees’ Wild Waggle Dances

Very cool…I might look into getting a copy of that Nature. My Bee project is buzzing along nicely. This morning on the train, I got the Bees to find flowers and bring nectar back to the hive. I’ll try and do a check in soon.

I think I’m going to build a Cocoa interface to the library, just to sort of monitor stuff. I still haven’t decided what I ultimately want to do with the library, most likely it will just be a fun OO Perl exercise, but there’s some potential for more fun with it. It is super slow right now. The map is one big array of location objects. All map “math” is done by traversing that array, which is sort of ridiculous, given each location has it’s own x,y coordinate. I did the array thing because it was easiest to get started with. If I can optimize that a bit, I’ll be in much better shape. I’ve read a teeny tiny bit about representing chess boards in memory, I’m not sure if this is a situation that that sort of idea could be applied to.

I’m really not sure what the industry standard way to represent “space” in memory is. Fun fun.

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